Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-06-12

nm fnDk OIL HIS nov
= tb !, he would probably Join them
he morrow below Heidelberg, III 80
n thew would find every preparation ~ bel
HE them to spend the night comtoIp
y If he did not Join them 1t w0u'u oe
,,rse he was detained on duty. In that
: Tho two men had his orders to escor'
-, saf.Iv to Moonifonteln, and, he au
a;rniGcantly. 81 do not think you VIII
Guided with any further impollte-
. orother moment he had galloped Oh
HE greot black horse, leaving the par
: ;dsrablv mysti[ied and not a little re-
zoe said John, Eat any rate ina
se nus TX like foul play, unless, lnueeu,
less sbp to prepare a warm re'e
not make !. he shoulders; she could
snelnSein TE uom md then they set.lgu
arl'e; lheS I'u heir long ana iohelS
but the guides, or ra I'D lies to cover,
only consent to theii ,e guard, would
which they did on the o. aiming once,
before sunset. AT s%und,,ldt a little
spanned again and started they in
darkening veldt. The road - the
shocking state, and until the moohin Il
which it did about . o'clock, the josp,
was both difficult and dangerous. Ar
that things were 4 little better, and at last,
about IL o'clock, they got into Heidelberg.
The town seemed almost deserted. Evil
IDENTIFY the great body of the Beers ut the
front and had only left a guard at their
seat of government.
l.NAVh... ~. yrn IN nuIsnan ~ nGlnH lnhn
of the Unicorn, who was jogging on along
side, apparently half asleep.
"At the hotel," was the short reply, and
thither they went, and thankful enough
they were to get there, and to find, from
the lights in the windows, that the people
were still up.
Standing at the inn door, holding a light
above her head, they founda pleasant look
inc E~nglishwoman, who welcomed them
heartily.
Frank Muller was here three hours ago
and told me to expect you, she said; land
very clad | am to see an English face
again, / can tell you. My name is Gooch.
Tell me, is my husband all right in Pre-
toria? He went up there with his wagon
Just before the scige began, and have not
heard a word from him since"
"Yes," said John, ''he is all right. He
was slightly wounded in the shoulder u
month ago, but he is quite recovered"
ooh, thank Godr' said the poor woman,
beginning to cry; those devils told me
that he was dead-tO torment me, | sup
pose. Come in, miss; there is some hot
supper ready when you have washed your
hands. The boys will see to the horses
Accordingly they entered and were
made rs happy as a goa supper, q hearty
welcome and comfortable beds could make
people in their condition.
In the early morning one of their esti-
mablc escort sent in a message to say that
they were not TO start before 1880, ~
their horses required more rest, so they got
several hours more in bed than they had
expected, and anybody who has ever made
a Journey in a post cart in South Africa
can understand what a blessing that was.
At . they had breakfast, and rs the clock
struck 1880 Mouti brought the cart round,
and with it came the we Beers.
"Well, Mrs CiOoch, y said John, what
do we owe yOu?'
Nothing, Capt. Mel, nothing. If yOu
only knew what n weight yOu have taken
of my mind! BESIDES, we are quite ruin
ed; the Beers have taken all my husbands
cattle and horses, aud until last week SIX
of them were quartered on me without
paying a lirrthing, so it makes no odds 10
me-"
Never mind, Mrs. Gooch," said John,
checriully, 'the government will compen-
safe you when this business is over, no
doubt"
Mrs. Gooch shook her head prophetic
ally. Never Il iarthing do ! expect 10
see" she said. ''If only | can get my
husband back, and we can escape out OF
this wicked place with our lives, ! shall be
thankful. And look here, Capt. Mel,
| have put up 4 basket full OF
ioOd-bread, meat and hard boiled
eggs and q bottle Of three star brandy.
They may be useful 10 You and the young
lady before you get home. | don't know
where you will sleep tonight, for the
English are still hOlGing StandertOu, 80
you won't he able to stop there, and you
can't get right through. No, don't thank
me. | could not do less. Good by--gOod
by, miss; | hope you will get through all
right. You had better look out, though.
Those two men you have got with
YOU are a very bad lot. | heard say that
that fat faced man with the tooth shot
two wounded men through the head after
the fight at Bronker's Spruit, and ! know
no good of the other. They were laugh
ing and talking together about you in the
kitchen this morning; II of my boys
overheard them, and the man with the
long hair said that, at any rate, they
would not he troubled with you after to-
night. | don't know what they meant;
perhaps they are going to change the es-
coIt; but ! thought that | had better tell
you"
John looked grave, and his suspicious
rearOSc, but ut that moment one of the
men in question rode up and told him that
he must start at once, and so off they
went.
The second days Journey was in many
respects 4 counterpart of the first. The
road was utterly deserted, and they saw
neither BOer, Englishman nor Kaifir upon
it; nothing, indeed, except n few herds of
game grazing on the ridges.
Nothing further occurred till, by the
orders of their escort, they Ontspanned, an
hour or so before sunset, at a spot in the
yeldt where a faint track fOrked out of the
StandertOn road.
70 be Continued.